The Intelligence Age

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• Find out William Dorrington's real name 
• A brief introduction to William's life 
• Career background of William
• A conversation about Williams educational background
• How William started in the Business Applications world
• A discussion about the TDG Community Worldwide 
• William's involvement with TDG and who are the other members? 
• What is TDG, and how TDG started? 
• William and his team's thoughts about TDG and how they put them together. 
• Where is TDG now, and what do they do globally? 
• Learn more about the history of Hackathon
• The importance of Hackathons
• Hackathons – who came up with the idea
• Microsoft's feedback about Hackathon 
• The Support they got from Microsoft 
• Locations or countries currently hosting Hackathon events 
• How do people from other countries get involved in Hackathon events
• Learn how to run Hackathons locally? 
• Find out what is the number one motivation behind running the Hackathon. 
• What should attendees expect when attending the Hackathon? 

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• A brief introduction about Paul Culmsee’s life  
• A conversation about Paul’s career journey 
• Talks about the company he is working for 
• Paul as a Management Consultant 
• Talks about Paul’s discovery of SharePoint 
• A discussion about Paul as a writer and author of books 
• Find out more about the benefits or advantage of writing a book 
• Feedback Paul has received from people reading his books 
• Discusses Paul’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Paul’s idea about the practical things and effective way of working in this community 
• Recommendation to people who are considering becoming a part of Microsoft MVP 

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• Talks about Shane Young’s origin
• A brief introduction to Shane’s life and family background
• What Shane does when not working 
• How the COVID19 crisis-affected Shane’s everyday life 
• A discussion about the books Shane wrote  
• Shane shares his experience in writing books 
• A conversation about Shane’s YouTube channel and his journey 
• Shane’s advice to people who are considering creating a YouTube channel 
• Technologies, software and tools Shane use during recording setup 
• The rules Shane follows in producing videos 
• Discusses Shane’s involvement with Power Platform – advantages and disadvantages 
• Advice to people who are wanting to be part of the MVP program and in this industry 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• A brief introduction about Linda Rose’s family and career background 
• Talks about Linda’s hobbies and what she does when not working 
• A discussion about Linda’s involvement with mergers and acquisitions   
• Linda’s story about the businesses she has created 
• The key things Linda did to position these businesses to be acquired 
• What a successful business owner should do to be considered attractive in an acquisition 
• The 8-key evaluation a business owner should know 
• Recommendations Linda have for Microsoft Partners who want to grow an acquirable business 
• A conversation about how Linda’s book came about 
• Linda shares her thoughts with business owners who are in selling motion 
• The process and how business owners should prepare in selling their company 
• Talks about Linda’s journey in writing a book 
• The lessons learnt from writing a book 
• Linda’s process in writing a book  
• Find out Linda’s technique in writing a book 
• Target audience with Linda’s most recent book  

Books Mentioned
Linda Rose’s Book: Get Acquired for Millions 

Resources
Rosebizinc Resources Page: https://rosebizinc.com/resources/

Music Credits
I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque

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• Meet Ee Lane Yu talks about her origin and life
• Best food to eat in Malaysia and the best place to visit
• How Ee Lane landed in Singapore and moved to Melbourne, Australia
• A conversation about her career background – from Malaysia, Singapore to Australia
• Ee Lane shares her journey to working with Dynamics CRM and Power platform
• Discusses Ee Lane’s involvement with the TDG community
• Microsoft MVP journey of Ee Lane
• Shares Ee Lane’s experience about being a Microsoft MVP
• Talks about Ee Lane’s thoughts about the MVP Program

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• Family, career, origin and life background of Roxy Ndebumadu 
• A discussion about Roxy's journey to Microsoft 
• As a Customer Success Business Lead at Microsoft 
• Talks about Roxy's goal 
• Conversations about what storytelling means to Roxy and its importance 
• Discusses Roxy's journey to becoming a City Councilwoman of Bowie 
• How Roxy manages her time between being a Councilwoman from her corporate job 
• A conversation about what Roxy is seeing when it comes to customer success 
• The best practices around customer success in terms of sustainable uses of technology 
• What Roxy have seen in terms of people who are successful and not successful in using technologies – what are the differences and what did they do 
• Does Roxy focus on a specific product set within Microsoft? 
• What is Roxy's role in encouraging success with Microsoft technologies within businesses? 
• Projects Roxy had worked on for customers using Microsoft technologies – Use cases, Business best practices and the differences when it comes to customer's location. 
• Roxy's involvement when it comes to the community – Federal customer, Commercial customer and Africa 
• Talks about virtual conferences 
• Recommendations, advice and encouragement to people in Africa who are wanting to invest in Microsoft. 

CREDITS

Music by: StockSounds Title: Energetic Upbeat Pop Summer Licensee: Cloverbase Limited

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• Meet Mark Christie, a Microsoft Business Solutions MVP 
• Mark Christie was the first to run a conference event in Scotland  
• Mark shares his thoughts about the last Summit Event that happened in Scotland 
• The steps or process Mark prepared to run the first conference in Scotland 
• A discussion about Mark’s view on the virtual conferences happening in the community 
• A conversation about Mark’s observation about the COVID19 crisis 
• With the pandemic, what are Mark’s predictions about the things that might happen in the Industry 
• Discusses Mark’s speaking events experience 
• Talks about the three projects Mark is working on  
• The benefits of using TEAMS 
• Talks about the present Market in Scotland when it comes to the adoption of Power Platform over Dynamics 365 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Aric Levin originally from Israel, talks about his origin, family, and life 
• How COVID19 affected Aric’s life and family 
• A conversation about Aric’s career journey 
• Talks about Aric’s journey to Microsoft Business Applications 
• The project Aric worked on that made the biggest impact in his career 
• What excites Aric the most when it comes to the new technologies coming 
• Discusses Aric’s involvement with the MVP Community and user groups 
• Aric’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – nomination process 
• Talks about Aric’s thoughts about the MVP Program 
• Advice and recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Talks about Claire Rose Carmichael life – where she lives and what she does when not working
• A discussion about the 365 Saturday event in Scotland 
• Claire’s career background – how she got into her IT career 
• A conversation about Claire’s involvement in the Microsoft Business Applications community 
• Discusses the Microsoft partner’s fears and their engagement to the community 
• Career-wise – how Claire keep up with the skills development 
• A discussion about how Scotland’s business environment looks like now because of the events  
• Talks about running a graduate training program 
• The benefits of taking a graduate training program 
• How the graduate training program looks like 
• The most recent Scottish Summit Event 
• Claire’s thoughts about the Scottish ecosystem – the Partners and opportunities 
• With the COVID19 pandemic how Claire keeps up with the situation

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• Life and family background of Joel Leichty  
• How COVID19 changed Joel’s plans  
• Joel talks about how it was when he found out that he was not renewed as MVP   
• Discusses Joel’s amazing MVP experience   
• The process of getting the MVP award  
• Plans on getting back to Microsoft MVP Program  
• Recently joined the Dynamic Consulting company as Power Practice Manager  
• Talks about the new user group DynamicsCon  
• A conversation about DynamicsCon group’s focus and plans  
• Joel’s thoughts and goal about the DynamicsCon community  
• The most memorable part of being a Microsoft MVP from the year 2013-2020 

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